Fatal East Bay shooting victim was UCSF dental student

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Randhir Kaur, 37, a dental surgery student at UC San Francisco, was found with a single gunshot wound at her Albany home on Monday. Police are still searching for her killer. (Courtesy UC San Francisco)

ALBANY — A 37-year-old woman found dead in her apartment was identified by police Wednesday, as investigators revealed she had died from a single gunshot wound.

The death of Randhir Kaur, a student at the UCSF School of Dentistry, is being investigated as a homicide, the city’s first such killing in more than a decade, officials said.

At 4 p.m. Monday, a relative called police to Kaur’s apartment at 1068 Kains Ave., near San Pablo and Marin avenues, after finding her lying unconscious on her apartment floor. Medics pronounced her dead inside the apartment. She had been shot once, investigators said.

At UCSF, Kaur was studying to become a Doctor of Dental Surgery, and was expecting to graduate in June 2016, the university said in a statement.

“We are saddened at the tragic loss of Randhir Kaur,” the statement read. “She was a treasured member of the UCSF School of Dentistry community. Our hearts go out to her family and friends at this very difficult time. … We will miss her deeply.”

Officials said grief counselors were available to students and staff, and that a memorial service for Kaur was being planned.

Albany detectives are following leads but have made no arrests, and do not know the motive for the killing. The city of about 19,000 residents has not had a homicide since 2004, when 18-year-olf Anthony Robinson of Richmond was shot while driving west on Interstate 80 near the Gilman Street exit, just north of the Berkeley border.

David DeBolt is a reporter for the Bay Area News Group who covers Oakland. DeBolt grew up in the Bay Area and has worked for daily newspapers in Palo Alto, Fairfield and Walnut Creek. He joined the organization in 2012.

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